WWE: Three Wrestlers and a Baby ~BOOK ONE~

Hit the Road Jake

I didn’t realize that my foot was tapping until John was standing next to me, tapping my shoulder. Finally I turned to him. “Why are you tapping me?”

“Gem calm down. Is everything okay?”

I didn’t mind my son playing with his idols, but not his father. His father threw me away three years ago, and I’m not going to let him back into my life…more importantly, I’m not going to let him screw with Alex’s life.

I crawled into the ring and crouched down in front of my son. “Alex, I think it’s time for us to get going now.”

“Awwwwww,” he whined.

Then Randy crawled over to me. I wanted to punch him in the face as hard as I could. I still had a lot of lingering feelings towards him from years ago. “But Gemi, I’m sure that Alex can beat me up just a little bit longer.” His smile was childish, and cute…but it irritated me a lot because he did it for that reason..

I looked smugly at him, and then looked back at Alex. Alex was grinning at me and folding his hands as if he was begging me to let him stay in the ring. He had the same eyes as Randy did, and I could see him face in our son.

Finally I sighed. “Alright Alex, you can play a little bit longer. But you will stay in the middle of the ring and you will not go near the turnbuckles okay? I don’t need you hurting yourself.”

Alex nodded at me with excitement and I crawled back out of the ring. He went back to beating up Randy in the middle of the ring.

I crawled out under the bottom rope and I stood as close as I could to the ring, with a slight smile on my face. I watched as Alex pretended to pin Randy to the mat.

I looked around at all the various superstars who stood around the ring, smiling and clapping at Alex. It made my smile grow.

I felt a hand reach around my waist, and I turned to see Jake. He was standing right behind me and I turned back towards my son. Christ Masters crawled into the ring and was acting as the “ref.” He tapped the mat three times, making it seem like Alex just won the match. Then Chris looked at me.

He mouthed to me, “do you mind if I pick him up?”

I smiled back at him and shook my head. Chris picked Alex up and put him on his shoulders, holding onto his legs tightly.

After Alex was done having his fun in the ring, Jake and I brought him backstage. We went back to the women’s locker room, as it was cleared out. I started packing up my things from the locker.

“Gem, we need to talk.”

I was bent over, shoving things back in my purse when Jake spoke. I turned my head back to look up at him. “What about babe?”

He sighed. “Can we find someone to sit with Alex for a few minutes?”

This was bad. I nodded though. I got up and peered out into the hallway to see if anyone was out there. “Jake, I’ll be right back. Let me go get John or Melina.” He nodded at me and I walked out of the locker room.

What did he want to talk to me about. Was he going to leave me because I was getting back into wrestling? I really hope not.

I continued walking to the main backstage area, when I finally ran into the Bella twins. They stopped me in my tracks.

One of them had a tattoo just above her waist. After watching Monday Night RAW with my son for a few months, I learned that twin was Brie. The other twin was Nikki.

“Gem!” Brie said.

“Gem!” Nikki repeated.

“We are such huge fans of you!”

“We used to watch you all the time!”

“You were by far my favorite diva!”

“It’s so great to see you back here!”

I hugged them both, trying to be nice. “My son is a huge fan of both of you as well!”

“Aw that is so sweet!” Brie stated.

“Was that your son that was out in the ring a little bit ago?”

I nodded. “Yeah, that’s Alex.”

“Aw, Alex is such a sweet name.”

“He is such a doll!”

I nodded again, smiling uncontrollably, as I always did when I gloated about my son. But then something struck me…. “Hey girls, would you be able to help me out with something?”

They both nodded. “Sure!”

“What would you like us to do?”

“Well,” I started, “I need someone to actually watch my son for a few minutes while my boyfriend and I…have a talk.”

“We would love to!”

“Yeah we would!”

Phew! Awesome. “Okay, well follow me!” I led them back to the locker room, and Alex immediately fell in love with them. The Bella Twins took him back out into the hallway.

Jake sighed.

I leaned against the wall near the door and I stared at him. “So?”

“Gem, are you sure you want to start this whole wrestling thing again?”

I sighed and then I nodded, as I stared at the floor in disappointment for myself. “I’m so sorry Jake. I really just don’t feel like I can stay away from it after all this time. I miss it so much.”

He sighed again. “Well, I’ve been waiting to tell you this, but I have to go away for business this week. I’m going to be leaving tomorrow night.”

I looked up at him, kind of pissed. “You waited to tell me? How the hell could you wait to tell me? What, were you going to tell me right before you left? Oh hey Gem, I am leaving in a few minutes and I’ll be gone for a couple weeks. I’ll be back when I can.”

“Gem, it’s not like that. I just wanted to wait until I found out whether or not you were going to start up this stupid job thing again.”

I took a step towards him and unfolded my arms. “Wrestling isn’t a stupid job Jake.”

“It is when you have a kid that you have to take everywhere with you.”

I scoffed as I walked back over to my locker. “I’m done Jake.”

“What do you mean you’re ‘done?’”

I didn’t turn to face him. “I mean I’m done Jake. With us. You never support anything I do, and frankly I’m sick of it.”

“What are you talking about Gem?”

I sighed. “I wanted to get a job last year, but you didn’t want us to leave Alex with a day-care. I wanted to start a business from home to where I could still watch him, but you didn’t want me to spend that much time on a computer. I wanted to start wrestling again, and you think it’s a stupid job.” I threw my large bag over my shoulder, along with my purse and Alex’s diaper bag. “I don’t wanna be with someone that doesn’t want to support me.”

A tear escaped my eye as I walked out of the locker room.